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Schnauzkrampf Kahlbaum's term for protrusion of lips resembling a snout in catatonia Scintillating scotoma Shimmering spots of light in migrainous aura that may expand & occlude vision or become fortification spectra Semantic (paraphasia) Substitution of an incorrect but real word for the desired word in aphasia Simple (hallucination) Hallucination of primary sensory input devoid of particular meaning or identity Simultanagnosia Inability to recognize more than a single object in a group of objects Sleep drunkenness Prolonged transition to or from sleep with disorientation, incoordination, and sometimes physically acting out Sleep paralysis Inability to move transiently during sleep onset or awakening Sleep terror Tendency to occasionally awaken with appearance of extreme fear, screaming, sometimes violent response to attemts at restraint, & no recall afterwards Snout (reflex) Release sign in which peri-oral tapping elicits a snout response of lips & snake Social agnosia Inability to recognize social nuances or understand emotion based on facial expression, gesture, or prosody Somnambulism Sleep walking Somniloquy Sleep talking Spatial acalculia Inability to correctly solve math problems due to spatial deficits (e.g. number alignment) Speech arrest Ictal symptom consisting of inability to speak Stammering Speech containing involuntary pauses and repetitions, sometimes differentiated from stuttering in which the first syllable is repeated Stereognosis Ability to name objects placed in hand without using eyes Stereotypy Constantly repeated purposeless movement(s) Stimulus-bound Aspect of frontal executive dysfunction in which patient is drawn to the most salient stimuli without consideration of other factors Stressed (gait) Assessing gait with patient slightly off balance (e.g. walk on sides of feet) to bring out latent posturing Stuck-in-set (perseveration) Inability to switch cognitive strategies despite changing demands of task Supranuclear gaze Eye movements to command (as opposed to pursuit) Syndrome of approximate answers See Ganser syndrome Synesthesia Translation of experiences from one sensory modality to another (e.g. experiencing colors as sounds)